Space Invaders 101

More Tutorials

Part 2 of the tutorial is also available.

Description

Space Invaders 101 is a Java2D tutorial game, written and placed in the public domain by Kevin Glass.

See the tutorial for a nuts-and-bolts explanation of how the game was designed and implemented.

Build Instructions

You'll need Apache Maven 3.0+ and a recent JDK. Clone the repository, and use:

cd spaceinvaders-101-java
mvn package

to create an executable jar in target.

Running the Game

You can execute the jar by double-clicking it in your GUI, or using

java -jar spaceinvaders-java-101-1.0.1.jar

after navigating to the target directory.

License

All Java code placed in the public domain by Kevin Glass.

Sprites taken from SpriteLib, licensed under the Common Public License 1.0.